About Stephanie
Stephanie Birnbaum is an Ohio-based LPCC with 36 years of experience supporting adults through stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She offers a clear, practical style that focuses on ideas that make everyday life easier. Her sessions aim to help people stop feeling stuck and start using simple tools that work.
She blends cognitive behavioral methods with skills-building from dialectical approaches to address mood, attention, and coping problems. That combination helps with anxiety, ADHD, addiction concerns, and managing intense emotions.
Background and approach
She also uses solution-focused and existential ideas to clarify values and next steps. When faith matters, she can integrate Biblical perspectives on request while keeping the work focused on practical change. Expect structured sessions where patterns are named, goals are set, and concrete strategies are practiced between meetings.
The therapist’s manner is described as direct and compassionate, aiming to balance challenge with support. Stephanie helps people strengthen boundaries, improve emotional regulation, and build routines for better sleep, eating, and daily functioning. She also addresses career strain, caregiver fatigue, grief, and relationship difficulties in individual work.
Her approach includes short-term coaching-style work and longer therapeutic exploration when needed. With decades of clinical time, she brings experience with complex challenges like bipolar conditions, trauma history, and identity concerns. Sessions can focus on immediate problem-solving or on deeper questions of meaning and life purpose.
The goal is practical progress you can notice between sessions.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Stephanie commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in online work. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. DBT teaches concrete emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills that help when feelings become overwhelming.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean short-term solution-focused work, skill-building with DBT tools, or combining CBT with existential conversations about meaning and purpose.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so therapy can fit around work, caregiving, or busy schedules. Video lets people talk face-to-face; phone can be a quick check-in or helpful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief reflections, reminders, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to practice skills in real life and maintain regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English